Puroresu Project is an independent, freely accessible archive dedicated to Japanese professional wrestling. Its goal is to preserve the history, celebrate the wrestlers, and connect fans to the rich tradition of puroresu.
Puroresu Project is a curated digital archive for exploring Japanese professional wrestling through wrestlers, timelines, styles, venues, match history, media, and cultural context.
Puroresu Project is independently maintained by a fan of Japanese professional wrestling, with the goal of making puroresu history easier to explore, preserve, and share.
Japanese wrestling has a rich, complex history that deserves to be preserved, connected, and made easier to explore. This project exists to help longtime fans, new viewers, researchers, and curious visitors find their way through that history.
The site is organized around connected entry points: The Story, Timeline, Wrestlers, Lineage, Styles, The Vault, Venues, and Beyond the Ring. Each section is designed to make the archive feel explorable rather than static.
The photography and video featured here are provided for archival and reference purposes only. Puroresu Project does not claim ownership of this media; all rights remain with their respective creators and rights holders.
This project draws from publicly available match records, video archives, books, magazines, promotion histories, venue references, and fan-maintained resources. If you spot an error or have a source that can improve the archive, corrections are welcome.
Puroresu Project is the culmination of a lifelong passion for Japanese professional wrestling and a career spent designing digital experiences.
With a background in UX design, user research, information architecture, CRM, data modeling, and front-end development, I approached this project the same way I would any complex product: by understanding the content, organizing it into meaningful relationships, and designing an experience that feels intuitive, immersive, and rewarding to explore.
Every page, interaction, and navigation pattern has been intentionally designed. From the Showa era-inspired visual language to the way wrestlers, promotions, timelines, styles, and matches connect across the site, every decision was made to help visitors discover and understand the rich history of Japanese professional wrestling.
Puroresu Project isn't just a website. It's the intersection of my professional design experience and a passion I've had since I was a kid.
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